Category: QIS Annoucements

QEC11, which will be held Dec. 5-9, 2011 at USC, is now open for registration. The homepage is at http://qserver.usc.edu/qec11/ and registration can be done at http://qserver.usc.edu/qec11/reg.html

A great opportunity to work with Howard Wiseman in Australia: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Quantum Information Theory) Department: Centre for Quantum Dynamics Work type: Fixed Term (2 years, with the possibility of extension) Overview: The Centre for Quantum Dynamics seeks a … Continue reading →

The Institute of Advanced Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is pleased to announce the 5th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Quantum Information Science in conjunction with the Festschrift in honour of Vladimir Korepin The first Asia-Pacific Workshop on Quantum Information … Continue reading →

Aephraim Steinberg sends a note about CQIQC Dear Friends of CQIQC: I apologize if this announcement is reaching you multiple times, and also that it reaches you somewhat late. We hope that some of you remember the first three Conferences … Continue reading →

Andrew sends along a postdoc opportunity at Sandia, active until 4/1/2011: Job Title:Quantum Information Processing Research Job ID:637477 Location:Albuquerque, NM Full/Part Time:Full-Time Regular/Temporary:Temporary About Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and … Continue reading →

Stephen Bartlett sends along postdoc ops at Sydney (overlap with previous post): The Quantum Science group at the University of Sydney, as part of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS), is seeking to appoint … Continue reading →

Michael Biercuk sends along some postdoc opportunities in Sydney, Australia: Quantum Control and Sensing with Trapped Ions, Experiment: http://tiptop.iop.org/index.cfm?action=job.desc&jobid=15185 Measurement and control in GaAs electron double quantum dot architectures, Experiment: http://tiptop.iop.org/index.cfm?action=job.desc&jobid=15184 Theory of measurement and control in GaAs electron double … Continue reading →

This is a reminder that the early registration deadline for the 11th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information and the 8th Canadian Student Conference on Quantum Information is in one week, March 11th. Places are limited and based on first … Continue reading →

BENASQUE 2011 We are pleased to inform you that following a very successful editions of Benasque 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009, we are organizing another workshop of the similar type in June 2011. This is to invite you … Continue reading →

Join a great group working at Sandia Labs (and get your fill of New Mexican food too!): Job Title: Quantum Information Science Research Scientist Job ID: 637386 Location:Albuquerque, NM Full/Part Time: Full-Time Regular/Temporary: Regular About Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is … Continue reading →

A great internship opportunity at NEC: The Quantum IT group at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ has 2011 summer internship positions available for graduate students in quantum computing. Areas of interest include: Adiabatic quantum computing Quantum algorithms Quantum circuits Quantum … Continue reading →

We would like to draw your attention to the conference “Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing”, which will take place at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada from May 9 – 13, 2011. Please forward this message … Continue reading →

The atomic molecular, optical and positron physics group (AMOP) at University College London has advertised two academic positions for theorists in the following or related areas: Positron-, Positronium-, Electron-Collisions Ultracold Gases Ultrafast laser spectroscopy and Strong Laser Interactions Biological Physics … Continue reading →

Two faculty positions available at the newly founded Institut für Quanteninformation. The deadline is, no joking, April 1, 2011. Pdf of the job announcement here, quoted below: 2 Juniorprofessors in Theoretical Physics (Condensed Matter, Quantum Information) Faculty Sciences Two qualified … Continue reading →

Dear colleague, We are delighted to announce our Royal Society Scientific Discussion meeting titled “Quantum-Coherent Energy Transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies” to be held on 27-28 April 2011 at The Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley, UK. … Continue reading →

An opportunity to work for two of the best quantum researchers around: David DiVincenzo and Barbara Terhal have moved to the technical university in Aachen, Germany where they have now established an Institute for Quantum Information: http://www.physik.rwth-aachen.de/en/institutes/institute-for-quantum-information/. Currently they are … Continue reading →

Quantum Information and Computation Postdoctoral Position http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/news/main/jobs/index.html A postdoctoral position in the field of Quantum Information and Computation is available in the group of Professor Boris Altshuler in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, New York (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics). This position … Continue reading →

A postdoctoral position is available in the group of Professor Chandrasekhar Ramanathan in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. Ongoing projects in the lab include characterizing the closed- and open-system quantum dynamics of spin chains; understanding the … Continue reading →

Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary invites applications from motivated and creative individuals for several research positions. A new nanophotonics and quantum optics lab (Paul Barclay, http://www.iqis.org/nanophotonics/), with facilities both at the University of Calgary and … Continue reading →

Registration now open: 11th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (June 6th-15th) 8th Canadian Student Conference on Quantum Information (June 16th-17th) Jouvence, Québec, Canada The 11th edition of the Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information and the 8th Canadian Student … Continue reading →

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), in partnership with the University of Waterloo, welcomes applications to the Master’s level course, Perimeter Scholars International (PSI). Exceptional students with an undergraduate honours degree in Physics, Math, Engineering or Computer Science are … Continue reading →

The Electronics Materials Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, seeks candidates for post doctoral positions in the theory of solid implementations for quantum information. Areas of current interest include quantum dots and coupled quantum dots, photons … Continue reading →

The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC11) will be held Dec. 5-9, 2011 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California USA. The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction, hosted by the USC Center for … Continue reading →

========================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography —- TQC 2011 —- Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid, Spain 24 – 26 May 2011 http://gcc.ls.fi.upm.es/tqc2011/ ======================================================================= Quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography are … Continue reading →

Save the Date: QCRYPT 2011 – First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography September 12-16, 2011 ETH Zurich www.qcrypt.net